Cantera is an
open-source
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chemical kinetics software used for solving chemically reacting laminar flows. It has been used as a third-party library in external reacting flow simulation codes, such as FUEGO and CADS, using
Fortran,
C++
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, etc. to evaluate properties and chemical source terms that appear in the application's governing equations. Cantera was originally written and developed by Prof. Dave Goodwin of
California Institute of Technology
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. It is written in C++ and can be used from C++,
Python
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Computing
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,
Matlab
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and Fortran.
See also
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Chemical kinetics
Chemical kinetics, also known as reaction kinetics, is the branch of physical chemistry that is concerned with understanding the rates of chemical reactions. It is to be contrasted with chemical thermodynamics, which deals with the direction in ...
*
Autochem
AutoChem is NASA release software that constitutes an automatic computer code generator and documenter for chemically reactive systems written by David Lary between 1993 and the present. It was designed primarily for modeling atmospheric chemist ...
*
CHEMKIN CHEMKIN is a proprietary software tool for solving complex chemical kinetics problems. It is used worldwide in the combustion, chemical processing, microelectronics and automotive industries, and also in atmospheric science. It was originally de ...
*
Chemical WorkBench Chemical WorkBench is a proprietary simulation software tool aimed at the reactor scale kinetic modeling of homogeneous gas-phase and heterogeneous processes and kinetic mechanism development. It can be effectively used for the modeling, optimizat ...
*
Kinetic PreProcessor (KPP)
References
External links
Cantera Github repositoryPresentation on Cantera features
at 2006 NSF workshop
Download link
Computational chemistry software
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